Good morning, all! Nice to meet you, I’m Joel. I’m the new guy. Hang on a sec, where is J. Money? As J announced earlier this week, he’s slowly stepping away from blogging here. He’ll be passing the reins over to me starting in June. 😬 Good news though, J’s not going too far!... He just extended his contract with Soapbox (the peeps who own this blog) and they
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Things I learned this week…
Y'all seem to be enjoying all these random things I've been learning, so I'll continue sharing them unless the digital tomatoes start coming my way ;) Here's the latest batch of things that have fascinated me... I'd love it if anyone could get to the bottom of #5 down there! #1. There's a dating site for FIRE lovers! --> FireDating.me -- "The first and only
My last month on the blog :)
Morning friends, old and new! Welp, it's that time of the journey where I start phasing out of the blog here and pass the torch on to a younger, more impassioned, person to continue spreading the good word! One of the scariest things I'll ever do as I've been blogging here for over *a fourth* of my life now (!!!), but as novelist Paulo Coelho once said, "If you think
A *FREE* Legacy Binder on the scene!
Morning, y'all! So many of you know how much I LOVE Chelsea's "ICE" Binder she put out the other year ("In Case of Emergency" Binder) - aka Legacy Binder - that houses all the things someone would need to know about you/your finances/family/estate/etc in the untimely death of you or your significant other, so naturally when I saw this note come my way I immediately perked
Life on the other side of the globe!
Morning, guys!! Stumbled across an old comment on the blog I tagged to share some day, and decided today's that day before I forget again! :) It was dropped in 2018 so it's a tiny bit dated, but a majority of this still holds true and thought you might find it as fascinating as I did when I first read it... Amazing that no matter where you live, or who you are, you still
I can officially die now… ;)
Welp friends, we finally checked off the last major part of managing our finances! We got a will and trust!! And it only took me 10 years to do DESPITE BEING A MONEY BLOGGER! ;) (Just keep that in mind the next time you're feeling bad about procrastinating yourself, lol...) I'd love to say it was super easy to do and we breezed through it, but it was actually a b*tch -
Walden – The Video Game!
Well here's something you don't see every day! A video game inspired by Henry David Thoreau! Who's probably rolling in his grave right now at the thought of this being out in the world! Haha... But on the plus side - we all get to live like him now as if we were the main character in Walden! A must have classic on all FIRE enthusiasts' bookshelves! ;) If you don't have
“I’m very happy and stable in this unstable time, ironically, unlike how lost and desperate I felt three years ago.”
Exactly three years ago on this day, we featured a reader of the blog who was suffering tremendously and trying to get a grip not only on his finances, but on being accepted in a world that doesn't make it easy on people of certain backgrounds. In his case, being gay, of non-white ancestry, and part of a religious Muslim community. Many of you reached out with generous
7 Ways to (Financially) Feng Shui Your House
If you ever wanted to talk about toilets on this blog, today's your day! Got this text from my Auntie who asked if I'd ever shared something like this on the site before, of which I could confidently tell her no - I had not, lol... But that changes today ;) Here's her text that opened up my eyes in more ways than one: She then sent me an article to prove that
Today I learned…
Today's post is sponsored by: THE QUARANTINE "When you're stuck inside every day, you happen to learn things!" And here's the latest batch of things I've learned ;) You can find batch #1 here and batch #2 here. How about you?! ****** #1. There's a Google for KIDS! It's called Kiddle and filters out all the adult stuff --> kiddle.co. Features bigger thumbnails,
